Cape Cod Sand

Concept

Katie Voyt is an abstract mixed media artist living and painting out of her home studio in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

She creates abstract paintings evoking personal experiences and impressions. In her paintings she researches the nature and relationships using organic shapes, transparency, layered washes and a variety of textures and materials (acrylics, oil pastels, graphite and markers on canvas).

Katie's paintings are bold, free and emotional, they break the boundaries of the rectangular frame and communicate with the viewer on their terms, energizing space around them and creating movement.

Katie is going away from the rectangular shape of the traditional painting and historical reference to a window, which would place the viewer looking outside into the world. She wants the viewer to be centered on what is important to them and to look inside themselves. Katie lets her observations, thoughts and memories be unique in shape (literally and metaphorically), thus initiating a dialogue with the viewer and the architectural space.

Organic shapes bring to mind the concept of nature, which is the most consistent inspiration in Katie’s art. The shapes that we see in nature are almost never created with strict angles or lines. While other forms look artificial and constructed, irregular shapes evoke a sense of freedom and naturalness.